384th 2025 REUNION
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Mission # 108

MISSION SUMMARY

Mission Date 15 May 1944
Eighth Air Force Operations Operations description not yet available.
Mission
384th BG Mission Number 108, Eighth AF Force Mission Number 356
No Bombing Today
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Previous Mission
The 384th Bombardment Group (H) flew as the high group of the 41st Combat Bombardment Wing on today's mission. Problems with the Gee-H system prevented accurate targeting while making two Gee-H runs, so bombs were returned to base.
Primary Target Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site)
Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons)
Location: Mimoyecques, France
Target Attacked (Mode) No Target Attacked
Sortie/Aircraft Summary Completed Mission, not including spares - 18
Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed - 3
Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused - 2
Scrubbed - 1
Mission Personnel Mission Personnel Roster⇗ or Mission Loading Lists⇗
Mission Documents Combat Mission Records and Plans obtained from the National Archives⇗

24 AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED TO THIS MISSION
Table is sorted by Pilot, and may be sorted by any column: click the column head.
Aircraft Pilot Results Mission/Sortie Information
42‑3440⇗[N/A]Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑37974⇗Druckenmiller, Leon Charles⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑37982⇗Kelley, Robert Encil⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑39888⇗Gottfried, Raymond Nathan⇗Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97072⇗Wright, James Wiley⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97178⇗Dean, Ralph Merrick⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97188⇗Hall, Barney Marcus⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97201⇗Brown, Billie Barnard⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97204⇗Kelsay, Omar Frank⇗Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97237⇗MacFarlane, Menzies James⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97263⇗Brown, Donald Harold⇗Completed MissionLow Squadron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97271⇗Cranstoun, Richard Leroy⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97449⇗Wortman, Marshall (NMI)⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑97521⇗[N/A]Lead Ground Spare Aircraft, Unused 
42‑97573⇗Adams, William Lowell⇗Flying Spare, Returned As Briefed SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102402⇗Stevens, Raymond Robert⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102430⇗Pulliam, Lyle James⇗Completed MissionGround Spare Aircraft; replaced 42‑102566.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102449⇗Helmley, Loyd Elmer⇗Completed MissionGroup lead. Gee-H ship (assumed).
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102459⇗James, Robert Huey⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102518⇗Burkhard, James Albert⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102566⇗[N/A]Scrubbed: Did Not Take OffReplaced by Ground Spare Aircraft 42‑102430.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑102617⇗Rimbold, Arthur Arimese⇗Completed Mission SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107125⇗Bennett, Dewayne (NMI)⇗Completed MissionGroup deputy.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗
42‑107221⇗Johnson, William T⇗Completed MissionHigh Squadron lead.
SORTIE REPORT ⇗